10
Sep
Yesterday Apple had its September presentation, which, as the title “Let’s Rock” may have given away, was focused on iTunes and the various iPod models. Here are the announcements in a nutshell:
HD TV shows added to the iTunes store. $2.99 per episode ($1.99 for standard definition), and you can view them on Apple TV and [...]
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25
Jul
This week my car was in the shop, and as a loaner vehicle I had a 2008 Ford Focus, with Ford and Microsoft’s new Sync system.
The car itself is OK. I normally drive a Ford Taurus, so the Focus is a little smaller, but I used to drive a Renault Clio back in the Netherlands, [...]
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26
Sep
Somewhere along the upgrade trail from 7.3 to 7.4.2, I started getting the annoying message “iTunes was not properly installed. If you wish to import or burn CDs, you need to reinstall iTunes” whenever I start iTunes. After following this advice, and restarting iTunes, I got the message “iTunes was not properly installed. If…” - [...]
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18
Sep
Yeah, I just got bit by that Vista “feature”… the one where your network slows down when you play music. That one, yeah.
I just added an index to our database, unfortunately from the client side. While I was chastising myself for doing it client-server instead of host-based, I was watching the number of records being [...]
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03
Aug
The Amarok blog has a sneak peek at the upcoming Amarok2 release. The following things are new:
New playlist.
Better use of Magnatune genres
Support for Magnatune gift cards.
CoverBling (experimental version of CoverFlow)
Use of Plasma (the new desktop and widget technology in KDE4) for the central area.
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